'Poltergeist's' Pioneering Technophobia

A mum has expressed her fury after her four-year-old twins were left terrified and unable to sleep upon seeing a giant Poltergeist film poster of a scary clown advertised on the side of a Stagecoach bus. The classic 1982 horror movie has been remade, 

Hollywood loves a remake, and the latest reimagining of a classic comes out this week, with the release of Gil Kenan's Poltergeist, about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil spirits that inhabit their clown dolls and their flat-screen TV

Poltergeist Actor Oliver Robbins Says There Is No Curse Poltergeist actor Oliver Robins — who played son Robbie in the 1982 original — said the eerie deaths of his costars were not a curse, but "just tragic coincidences." Credit: Bobby Bank/WireImage.

Of course Carol Ann's name is now Madison. Gil Kenan's dickless remake of Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper's 1982 classic Poltergeist is probably the most unnecessary redux in the perpetual cycle of horror remakes yet.

Everything old in Hollywood is new again, the most recent example of which is the remake of 1982's supernatural thriller “Poltergeist,” which haunts theaters nationwide today. In the modern take on the horror classic, the